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Creating the Future: A Better Way to Map Terrain
Mark Skoog, an aerospace engineer at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center, led the development of new software that stores terrain data in a more efficient and accurate way. The...
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AMRDEC Technologies to Improve Air and Missile Defense
Engineers at the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) are working on a trio of technologies to explore improving existing air and...
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Drop of Mock Nuclear Weapon Is First of New Flight Tests
From a distance, the drop of a mock nuclear weapon — containing only non-nuclear components — was a mere puff of dust rising from a dry lake bed at Nevada’s Tonopah Test...
INSIDER: Data Acquisition
New System Assists X-Planes with Super-Fast Data Transmission
A network and communication architecture that can more efficiently move data from research aircraft, while using half the bandwidth of traditional methods, could eventually...
Articles: RF & Microwave Electronics
Fast-Tracking Autonomous Vehicles with Simulation
Artificial intelligence developments are set to fundamentally transform mobility, whether it is mobility of weapon payloads, supply deliveries, urban commuters, warehouse goods,...
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NASA Tests Robotic Ice Tools
Since 2015, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has been developing new technologies for use on future missions to ocean worlds. That includes a subsurface probe that could burrow...
INSIDER: Aerospace
Heated Concrete Could Pave the Way for Ice-Free Runways
Iowa State University tested slabs of electrically conductive concrete at Des Moines International Airport. The test slabs are made up of 1 percent carbon fiber and a special mix of...
INSIDER: Test & Measurement
NASA Puts Dummies to the Test for Airplane Safety
Ten crash test dummies buckled into seats in a cut-out section of a regional jet fuselage will soon help NASA and the FAA develop new crashworthiness guidelines for future airplane...
INSIDER: Aerospace
Report from SPIE 2017: Drones Spot Gas Leaks from the Sky
ANAHEIM, CA. During last week’s SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing 2017 conference, panelists from industry, academia, and government demonstrated how miniaturized sensing platforms,...
INSIDER: Test & Measurement
Sandia Labs Takes Modern Approach to Evaluating Nuclear Weapons
Sandia National Laboratories is transforming how it assesses nuclear weapons in a stockpile made up of weapons at different stages in their lifecycles — some systems that have...
INSIDER: Data Acquisition
Next-Generation Fire Support Systems Boost Lethality
Soldiers view live-stream full-motion video from unmanned aerial vehicles via a smartphone. They access 3-D digital maps to send precision target coordinates. Soldiers are now relying on...
Articles: Data Acquisition
Pulse Analysis Techniques for Radar and Electronic Warfare
Pulsed signals are widespread in radar and other electronic warfare (EW) applications, and they must be accurately measured for manufacturing, design of countermeasures, and threat...
Briefs: Defense
Luminescence Materials as Nanoparticle Thermal Sensors
The purpose of this research program was to create and study novel luminescence particles (phosphors} capable of sensing and retaining the time-temperature information to which they were...
Briefs: Defense
Using Dempster-Shafer Fusion for Personnel Intrusion Detection
The Dempster-Shafer (D-S) mass function is used in effect as a common representation of heterogeneous sensor data. In order to cast each data source in this form, first the raw...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Using Fisher Information Criteria for Chemical Sensor Selection via Convex Optimization Methods
The design of chemical sensor arrays from the standpoint of chemical sensor selection and error quantification has historically proceeded as an ad hoc process. Frequently, chemical sensors are developed not as general purpose sensing devices, but as...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Development of an Optically Modulated Scatterer Probe for a Near-Field Measurement System
Near-field radiation patterns are useful in diagnosing antenna array defects, measuring far-field antenna patterns where the far-field is prohibitively...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Angular Random Walk Estimation of a Time-Domain Switching Micromachined Gyroscope
The primary metrics that prohibit the use of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) gyroscopes for navigation-grade inertial navigation units (IMUs) are angle...
INSIDER: Test & Measurement
New Lab Helps Boeing Detect Aircraft Flaws
Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology and The Boeing Company established a new nondestructive evaluation (NDE) laboratory that uses millimeter-wave technology to improve...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Open Standard Middleware Enables New HPEC Solutions
The military embedded computing landscape has been transformed from where it was 20 years ago — and that has been almost entirely enabled by the ability of prime contractors, systems...
Articles: Test & Measurement
Simulating and Analyzing Flow for an Air-to-Air Refueling System
Long-range bombers may have missions halfway around the world. Fighter jets may have to stay in the air longer than their relatively small fuel tanks will allow, or may find...
A laser-guided navigation sensor that could help future rovers make safe, precise landings on Mars or destinations beyond was developed at NASA’s Langley...
Articles: RF & Microwave Electronics
Using High Bandwidth Oscilloscopes to Analyze Radar and Electronic Warfare Systems
Whether for multi-channel analysis, or for wider analysis bandwidth in a measurement, high bandwidth oscilloscopes offer an alternative to traditional...
Articles: Defense
Bio-inspired Airborne Infrastructure Reconfiguration (BioAIR)
Conventionally, most autonomous mobile nodes, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are operated remotely by human operators. As such, forming a mobile communication network...
INSIDER: Test & Measurement
Air Force Is Developing Mach 18 Wind Tunnel
The Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel 9 team is conducting tests in support of risk reduction for a new test capability that will be revolutionary for AEDC...
INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
Software Gives Bomb Techs X-Ray Vision
In the chaos that followed the terrorist attack at the 2013 Boston Marathon, bomb squads scanned packages at the scene for explosive devices. Two homemade pressure cooker bombs had killed three...
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Portable 3D Scanner
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence (North Kingstown, RI) has released the new Leica Absolute Scanner LAS-20-8, a portable laser scanner for large volume inspection applications such as automotive sheet metal, aerospace...
Articles: Data Acquisition
Fiber Optic Multi-Sensing Platforms
Eventually, technology advances to the point where solutions that have been “good enough” for decades are no longer “good enough” for the innovations of today. The philosophy of “good enough”...
INSIDER: Aerospace
Existing Navigation Data Can Help Pilots Avoid Turbulence
Detecting turbulence remains the Achilles' heel of modern-day aviation. The reports submitted by pilots, subjective and often very inaccurate, are the least expensive and the most...
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Alternative Found for Nuclear Weapon Detection
One of the most critical issues the United States faces today is preventing terrorists from smuggling nuclear weapons into its ports. To this end, the U.S. Security and Accountability for...
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